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at&t. ♪ ♪ . >>> president obama is speaking this morning at the national prayer breakfast. it's a white house tradition going back to dwight eisenhower. some 3,000 people from 140 countries are in the audience today. welcome back to "cbs this morning." >>> a new study suggests the number of alzheimer's patients could triple by 2050. dr. murali doraiswamy is from duke university. why these alarming numbers going up? >> it's what we call the silver tsunami. three reasons. one is the graying of america, the big rise in people 65 plus. the numbers are expected to double so as we get better at treating heart disease, cancer as we live longer the consequences, we may be at risk for alzheimer's. >> is there anything we can do to prevent it? >> there's no magic bullet right now, but there are several trials of experimental treatments underway but there are a lot of things we can do to try to reduce our risk. for example, the single biggest risk for alzheimer's i think is strokes and vascular risk factors. so being heart healthy, exercising, trying to eat sort of a diet that's not t
at&t. ♪ ♪ . >>> president obama is speaking this morning at the national prayer breakfast. it's a white house tradition going back to dwight eisenhower. some 3,000 people from 140 countries are in the audience today. welcome back to "cbs this morning." >>> a new study suggests the number of alzheimer's patients could triple by 2050. dr. murali doraiswamy is from duke university. why these alarming numbers going up? >> it's what we call the silver...
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. >> reporter: the drone program puts president obama in an awkward position. as a senator and presidential candidate he criticized the bush administration anti-terrorism policy of enhanced interrogation of torture of suspects. >> this administration is acting like violence is a way to enhance our security. it is not. there are no shortcuts to protecting america. >> reporter: now the white house administration is being criticized for doing something outside the law. >> we have something that even president bush didn't do, which is the order the killing of a united states citizen without clear evidence of an immediate attack. >> reporter: in a written response, they're constantly redefining its standards and he doesn't believe new legislation is necessary. the white house has been under a lot of pressure from democrats as well as republicans and this release seems to be time to avoid an embarrassing holdup of brennan's nomination. >>> senior security analyst juan zarate working during the administration of president bush. what's the hardest question brennan will
. >> reporter: the drone program puts president obama in an awkward position. as a senator and presidential candidate he criticized the bush administration anti-terrorism policy of enhanced interrogation of torture of suspects. >> this administration is acting like violence is a way to enhance our security. it is not. there are no shortcuts to protecting america. >> reporter: now the white house administration is being criticized for doing something outside the law. >>...
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welcome back top >>> president obama's>>> president obama's >>> president obama's cia nomineenominee johnp nominee john brennanrnominee john brennan isp defending thedefending the use of lethal drone strikes. brennanrbrennanp brennan saidbrennan said the brennan said the strikes are usedp attacks and notattacks and not as a tool of retribution. >>>p >>> the>>> the controversy over the use ofrof dronesp of drones isn't stopping the militaryp military frommilitary from testing the next generation of planes out pilots. the newest drones can be completely guided by computers, not people. david martin is at the naval station in paw tuxie river, maryland, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, i'm standing in front of a large unmanned aircraft flown by the navy over the persian gulf flies at 50,000 feet and designed strictly for surveillance but there are other drones at the naval air station in the pawtuxet river, maryland which are designed to carry weapons. it is capable of carrying 4,000 pounds of weapons. right now it is loaded only with instruments as it is launched from a land bas
welcome back top >>> president obama's>>> president obama's >>> president obama's cia nomineenominee johnp nominee john brennanrnominee john brennan isp defending thedefending the use of lethal drone strikes. brennanrbrennanp brennan saidbrennan said the brennan said the strikes are usedp attacks and notattacks and not as a tool of retribution. >>>p >>> the>>> the controversy over the use ofrof dronesp of drones isn't stopping the militaryp...
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and i think it ought to be -- with all the questions about -- and especially with, you know, barack obama saying he'd have questions about whether his son would play if he had a son. so plenty to talk to the commissioner about. it's great to be in new orleans, let me also say that. >> great to have you. >> your kind of town. >> thank you, bob. >>> at the senate hearing hagel addressed the computer hacking. two major newspapers say chinese hackers infiltrated their computers for the last several months. >>> meanwhile pentagon officials are looking at a big change in how they fight tearer. bob orr is in washington. >> those attacks are part of the broader campaign by foreign cyber spies to hack computer systems inside the u.s. officials warn more are inevitable as cyber attacks are ga greater now. to government sponsored hackers inside china. chinese officials denied the allegations calling them not professional and groundless but both papers say there is evidence hackers stole reporters' passwords and attempted to monitor governments of the papers. state-sponsored spies, mostly from china,
and i think it ought to be -- with all the questions about -- and especially with, you know, barack obama saying he'd have questions about whether his son would play if he had a son. so plenty to talk to the commissioner about. it's great to be in new orleans, let me also say that. >> great to have you. >> your kind of town. >> thank you, bob. >>> at the senate hearing hagel addressed the computer hacking. two major newspapers say chinese hackers infiltrated their...
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. >>> cbs sports reporter scott pelley has a live interview with president obama tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. eastern time 1:30 pacific during the super bowl today. >>> on wall street the dow jones industrial average topped 14,000 yesterday thanks to strong job growth and positive numbers in housing and manufacturing. the dow added 149 points to close above 14,000 for the first time in more than five years. it has been a quick climb since 2009 when the dow fell to a 12-year low, 6,547. >>> gas prices are also on the rise. the aaa nationalage is $3.46. that's a jump of 13 cents in a week. ben tracy takes a look at the spike and how it's spread. >> reporter: the price at the pump has risen 29 cents. the average price for regular is $3.92. >> we know there was a wholesale spike of about 50 cents last week, and so the market has to absorb that cost in some way. >> reporter: oil companies say it's a supply issue. some area refineries are shut down for maintenance, while others are switching from the winter blend of gasoline to the more expensive summer blend. it could affect the gass price spike
. >>> cbs sports reporter scott pelley has a live interview with president obama tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. eastern time 1:30 pacific during the super bowl today. >>> on wall street the dow jones industrial average topped 14,000 yesterday thanks to strong job growth and positive numbers in housing and manufacturing. the dow added 149 points to close above 14,000 for the first time in more than five years. it has been a quick climb since 2009 when the dow fell to a 12-year low,...
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. >>> the debate over obama administration's use of unmanned drone craft striking americans was front and center this week on capitol hill. senators grilled cia director nominee john brennan about the program. but what's the view on the ground? cristhristopher smith a an adjunct professor and recently from a fact-fining mission in yemen. good morning, christopher. >> good morning. thanks for having me. >> what's the attitude about these strikes? is there a revulsion about them? a political problem? how do they feel? >> there's a major political problem, and the political problem is generalized political anger and resentment. it's not the droens in particular. it's the fact that the united states and saudi arabia have intervened in yemen. and the if you look at the the arab spring, they see that as foreign countries interfering with their ability to make their own decisions about their country's future. >> to what tee degreedegree is it becoming a recruitment tool for al qaeda? >> we presume that the drone strikes bring resent meant and that brings more into al qaeda. i interviewed a n
. >>> the debate over obama administration's use of unmanned drone craft striking americans was front and center this week on capitol hill. senators grilled cia director nominee john brennan about the program. but what's the view on the ground? cristhristopher smith a an adjunct professor and recently from a fact-fining mission in yemen. good morning, christopher. >> good morning. thanks for having me. >> what's the attitude about these strikes? is there a revulsion about...